Culture
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Prague's Žižkov district celebrates twenty years of Masopust
Traditional carnival celebrations preceding the beginning of Lent are taking place all over the Czech capital, with many neighborhoods organizing their own celebrations…
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Czech Catholics praise Pope’s “courageous” decision to resign
The news of Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to step down has surprised the world. Here in the Czech Republic, church leaders have praised his courage and recalled his visit…
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Karolína Milerová – keeper of Krtek flame with big plans for future
Karolína Milerová, who is 23, found herself running an international business following the death in 2011 of her grandfather, Zdeněk Miler. He was the creator of the…
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The Matadors – One of the greatest Czech beat groups of the 1960s
The Matadors, one of the greatest Czech beat groups of the 1960s, only released one LP, their eponymous 1968 debut. Like many Prague bands of their era, they had a fluid…
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Tim Smisek: an American singer-songwriter living in Prague
Tim Smisek is an American singer and songwriter living in Prague. He regularly performs at Restaurant Anna and various other venues in the Czech capital. For this week’s…
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Barbies and barbarity: exhibition takes novel approach to post-war massacres of Germans
A new photography exhibition that gets underway in Prague on Thursday takes a novel approach to one of the thornier subjects in modern Czech history: the massacres that…
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David N. Jahn – Creator and leader of Prague Burlesque
Prague Burlesque brought the revived burlesque art form – a theatrical, glamorous and relatively modest take on striptease – to the Czech capital in 2007, and the troupe…
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Composer and pianist Hana Robinson
In this edition of the Sunday Music Show we talk to the talented young singer, composer and pianist Hana Robinson, who studied at the Berklee College of Music and launched…
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Jitka Sloupová and the return of political theatre to the Czech stage
For some years after the fall of communism, Czech audiences avoided any kind of theatre that might have been perceived as political. After decades of putting up with…
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Czech performers take part in prestigious theater festival in New York
This January, a number of theater and dance troupes from the Czech Republic participated in an annual international APAP performing arts festival in New York City. The…
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Lemonade Joe: soft-drink purveying cowboy and cult Czech figure
‘Limonádový Joe’ (Lemonade Joe) is a cult sixties Czech western cum musical about a lemonade salesman in the Wild West. The film started life as column in a newspaper…
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Versatile graphic artist Oldřich Kulhánek dies aged 72
The well-known Czech graphic designer, painter, and illustrator Oldřich Kulhánek died in Prague at the age of 72 on Monday. He is best known for creating the images on the…
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